Henderson Daily News (Henderson, Tex.), Vol. 6, No. 312, Ed. 1 Friday, March 19, 1937 Page: 7 of 16
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ticular problem,
Troy Duran, principal of the
school, had come to Henderson to
arrange for the county meet here
today. At S p.m. he was on the
athletic field of Henderson high
school with Earl Adams, Hender-
son principal. Together they were
measuring off the field where
London athletes would run against
other teams today.
The London Parent-Teachers
Association usually meets In the
auditorium of the school. Thia
week the mothers were preparing
for a school play so they decided
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FRIDAY AFTERNOON, MAR. 19, 1937
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Burne 22 Weeks
ULA, O. (UP)—
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d ruined timberland
wake of a mysterious
d fire which burned
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"Red" Moore, London school
coach, held no workout for his
athletes Thursday afternoon. On
such occasions Moore usually
spends his time Inside the build-
ing. At the fatal hour, however,
he happened to wander out onto
the football field.
He decided to stop by his cot-
tage near the field and was com-
ing out when a cloud of stone
and steel belched from the build-
ing.
• ■ By another, strange circum-
stance Mrs. Moore was spared.
Flour Sale
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about $2.50 a 36-hour week for
pumpers, or to 91 cents* an hour
from the fornjer rat? of 84 cents.
Other increases were of approxi-
mately the same ratio, it was
learned.
PRE-EASTER SALE OF MEATS-
BOBGNfe
.. 25.00
5.00
2.00
5.00
10.00
m adopted ’ by the
•eported favorably by
nlttee.
Officers Inclined to Scout Idea But Investigate
Theory as Possible Clue in School
> . Building Tragedy
The possibility that the most
disastrous explosion In the history
of the nation might be the result
of dynamite was being investi-
gated Friday by Ranger Captain
H. B. Purvis andlShcricc Bill Mc-
Murray of Henderson.
Fourteen stickd of unexploded
dynamite were found by a rescue
worker in a storeroom under the
stairs in the south wing of the
New London school, six hours aft-
er the tragedy. j
The wbrker, W. jf. Folsom of
Tyler, reported his*'discovery te
Sheriff McMurray, and the inves-
tigation was started Immediately.
The dynamite was losely Wrap-
ped in brown paper and a hand-
ful of fulminate caps were scat-
tered between the sticks of explo-
sive.
McMurray was Inclined to soft-
pedal the idea that dynamite may
have caused the explosion, as was
Purvis. ,•
However, an oil field dynamiter,
who inspected the sticks, said that
they had not been put away by
anyone familiar with dynamite,
since the sticks and caps were
carelessly mixed-
about a problem. "What causes
ths phases of the moon, WiUie," I
asked. Wo drew a picture on the
blackboard and talked about it a
few minutes. ‘See you later,* WU-
lie laughed and took up his class
and I walked out onto the athletic
field. A few minutes later there
was the detonation.”
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to meet in the wooden
feet east of the bulb
meeting .was just beginning, i
More than DO of the mothers were
M rat ,
at their desks.
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CARTHAGE, Tex., Mar. 19 (Spl)
—Rev. V. G. Garrett, the pastor of
the Central Baptist church stated
that there Is still plenty of time
for the people of Carthage and
surrounding communities to
tend the Bible conference
week.
"Outstanding Bible themes are
being discussed each.night by men
who are well prepared to give the
teaching of the Word of God on
their particular subjects, and are
giving to the people much Infor-
mation and inspiration along these
several lines,” Rev. Garrett stated.
Services will be held the remain-
der of the week, and will be
brdught to a close on Sunday eve-i
ning with an address by Mr. Ollie
B. Webb. Christian layman an
business man and one of the chief
executives of the Texas A Paci-
fic Railroad system.
Special music under the direc-
tion of Chas. Murphy, is also a fea-,
ture 4* «*cb services. The public
is not only cordially Invited, but
urged* to be present at all of the
services," the minister said.
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News that will go down in history was being made by this earnest
gr'oup as these candid photographs were made tn the Senate Judi-
ciary Committee room, first battleground for President Roosevelt’s
proposal to enlarge the Supreme Court Of committee members
pictured, Senators King (Dem., Utah), Van Nuys (Dem., Ind.), and
Connally (Dem., Tex.) oppose the President’s plan; Senators Ashurst
(Dem., Ariz.), and Norris (Ind., Neb.) favor it; and Senators Mc-
Cartan (Dem., Nev.), and Dieterich (Dem.; Ill.) are non-committal.
After John Patrick Devaney former chief justice of the Minnesota
Supreme Court, urged enactment of Roosevelt’s plan, be was men-
tioned prominently for a place on the high court should the- plan be-
come law. Former Senator Smith'W. Brookhart of Iowa awaited
. his turn before the committee,'
The county meet to open here
today took W. L. Waldrip, physi-
cal instructor, to the tennis courts
Wednesday afternoon, Waldrip
ssrit in for twelve of his tennis
players and they were beginning
a workout on the courts. X
Tex., Mar. 10. (UP)—A
1 which had annoupced
opening for today met
heeds of the New Lon-
exploslon and opened
iurs ahead of Schedule,
bedswvere installed hur-
rovide accommodations
ired. Two other Tyler
'ere filled to capacity
er injured, a .
OLD IRISH LINEN ,
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ORANGES
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Felton Waggoner, principal
the grammar school,' bad been
the P.-T. A. meeting. He was walk-
ing back toward the building and
was within a few feet of the en-
trance when it came. A lump of
debris struck Waggoner on the
'head. He was otherwise uninjured.
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Carlisle School to
Be Well Represented
At Houston Sessions
The Carlisle Schools will be well
represented at the Southern Sec-
tional meting of the American
Physical Education Association at
Houston, from Thursday through
Saturday.
Going to the convention this
afternoon< will be Miss Helen
Langford, and Miss Mary Jane
Drelnhofe' of the girls department
and D. E. Bunting head of the
physical education department.
Carlisle is one school out of
fourteen in the entire State that
has all of the credit allowed by
the State' department in physical
education.
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>spital Opens
to Treat Blast
red at London
Dime Bay Rum Sale -
Results in $100 Fine
LAWRENCE, Mass. (UP>—A
bottle of bay rum which Llborio
Loplano sold for 10 cents later cost
him *100 in court.
Lopiano was fined that amount
when he was convicted of selling
intoxicating liquor without a li-
cense. ;
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Tungsten is the toughest of all
j
Carroll F. Evans, science In-
structor, usually spends the last
period puttering in his lab. Not
for days had he failed to spend
that fatal last hour in the build-
ing. Wednesday he had finished
his five classes and by some
strange inclination left the build-
ing.
"When the 2:45 bell rang, I de-
cided to get outside,*' Evans said
Saturday night. “Willie Tate, an-
other science instructor was com-
ing in the classroom for a lecture
on astronomy. I consulted him
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J, Texas, IVtarch 19
:e boys playea truant
y/terday- wheju the ra,
the New London s' , i'jaL
led down - on thoir '
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IforkHedfe
ring has been re-
I Rusk County Red
F today as a “love”
be used in relief *
Ims of the London
Iktown, Tex-
|.. 50.00
5.00
Machinery now is being moved
to a location ,in the Summer-
field-Ponta section of. the Chero-
kee County preparatOFw to drill-
ing a test well, which will be
spudded in within
days. ' -
Location of the latest test,
which is being drilled on a block
of leases assembled by J. G.
Mayo of Houston and others, is
on Dr. J. T. Greenwood’s 22 1-2-
acre tract of the survey
•south of Summerfield, two miles
is eontractoF for this well. It
be (drilled to the Woodbine, and
if no production is fount! there,
probably will be carried to the
trinity sand, which should be
found at a depth of approximate-
ly 6500 feet.
A large drilling rig Is belnjf
move(l to the location, the ma-
chinery being capable of sink-
ing a hole amply deep to thor-
oughly test all formations.
Leasing and trading is report-
ed active in the section, a num-
ber of transactions having been
completed Tuesday, and others
being in progress today.
DYNAMITE FOUND IN BUIL
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[Tex., Mar. 19 (UP)—
lor both gas and boll-
le before the Texas
how in session.
I report was voted last
[senate committee on
pection bill that has
I by the House. Also
ported and on today’s
sdar was a boiler In-
I prepared by Sen. Joe
hon.
Include heating plant
It those in residences.
Lfety measure is in the
concurrent, resolution
the State Railroad
to require malodor-
Lping gas will be de-
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or V Can* 4s I
plosion, were turned into emer-
gency shelters. The home eco-
nomics building became a first
aid station; the band building
was turned into a head quarters
for Col. Parker of the National
Guard; the Gymnasitim wa$ a
test house, where coffee And
bread was kept for the thirsty,
tired workers.
A volunteered truck, located
on a little hill in front of the
spot where the school stood, was
the informal headquarters for
the National Guard and sheriff’s
department.
A few hundred feet away, a
radio station, hooked to a nation-
wide chain, was broadcasting ac-
counts of the disaster during
most of the night.
The red dawn of Friday
morning saw most of the wreck-
age cleared,j®nd few more bodies
expected to be recovered.
Everyone at the scene was
nervous and jumpy, awed by the
enormity of the terrible accident.
As Lt. 0. L. Kelly of Tyler, Col.
Parker’s adjustant, Sat down to
Write out the military passes Re-
quired ^y authorities to enter
tho school grounds, he suddenly
as far away as Nacogdoches and
Tyler to care for the injured
while ambulances from every
East Texas town within a hun-
dred miles gathered at th* seene
within an hour after the word of
the disaster had spread.
The scene Itself was tike a
wild dream of hell. The white
glaring emergency( lights fo-
cussed on the work of rescue
illuminated the faces of the
of spectators who
rtleffyalley, watch-
i the work of res-
tft-elesaly.
BANANAS.
Doz. IOC
PROBE STARTED INTO
NEW ANGLE OF GRIM
MCE GREEN
CABBAGE
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ARMSTRONG’S
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HAMS Hi:
■ BEE wr RftBe<I4TU<|
ROAST 5^-
■3TON (UP). — The
Mau of Miries has an-
Miew method to deter-
Mat extent a gas may
Msed without actually
M it.
Mn the laboratory of
Milo, Texas, helium
Mrocedure has import
■ the natural gas and
Mries, the bureau said.
M the measurement of
and observation of
s and is simpler than
ernent of volume by
riment.
dustrial advancements
owledge of the com-
of gases, such data
IT of scientific inter-
tssibility was comput-
e “laws” of the early
ibert Boyle and J. A.
but no real gas fol-
laws exactly,
error in computing
ity by the laws and
city of the customary
methods have been
by the new proced-
under E. S. Burnett
eau.
od is expected to be
ir use in the deveuf#
ieeper, high-pressure
latural gas and of in-
ssure in transmission
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QUIET YOUR NERVES
lira. Nettie Caldwell of
Favorite Preacription tak- 1
an at a tonic helped to
make me feel math better. ,
It save me • fine appetite
and thia helped to live me
more enersy.’ . I
Co to roar neifhborhood drug etoee today.
New »>e, tableta SOc. Liquid »1 4 D 35.
Write to Dr. Pierce’e Oink, NJf.
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The dust was. terrible. We grammar school buildings trart’to“driBwell?“fo? Mayo ■ Sack QI OJ
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School officials claimed that the
dynamite had been used to blast
boulders out of the athletic field,
McMurray said.
Eye-witnesses to the t:_„
commented on the fact that
flame followed the explosion, a
characteristic of dynamite ex-
plosions. i
The cause favored by McMur-
ray was that an accumulation of
gas in the basement of the main
building had been ignited by a
Stray spark.
The intensity of the explosion
was awful. Although hundreds
were killed by the falling walls,
the very force of the explosion
itself, which' literally, lifted the
foundations from under the half
million dollar building, was so
terrific that many must have
died, in the blast itself.
Ira Joe Moore, fifteen-year-
old New( London boy, one of few
who escaped death, told ‘graphi-
cally of the horror that struck
the suddenness of light.
“I was in history class when
I heard the terrible explosion,
and the walls startup falling, in ’’
he bald. ‘We were ih (he south.
‘ wing of the building, and no one’
in my class was killed, but the
doors to the classrobin
blocked and all the windows
broke. We had to crawl out
through the windows, and while
the main building
fall.
“The dust
couldn’t see a thing for several
minutes, and then we started to
pull the other students otlt of
tho wreckage. I helped get five
or six. Some were dead, some
were just unconscious,” Moore
said. -4
In the part of the building
which felt the full force of the
blast, the front, were located
some twenty high school class-
rooms and as many junior class-
rooms. All were occupied at
the time of the explosion, about
3 p. m.
"The finest co-operation I
have eyei* seen” was the way
Sheriff McMurray described the
universal rallying of all forces
to aid in clearing up the deso-
lated community.
Oil companies from all over
East Texas offered all the equip-
ment at their disposal to aid ii^
clearing the mass of twisted iron,
brick, and rubble fron^ the gap-
ing hole that once was the New
London school. Atjrleast five
hundred workers, many of whom
had sons or daughter^ killed or
injured, worked unceasingly to
clear the building, most of them
carrying stones off by hand.
Small rubbish was carried away
in buckets and tubs, while lines
of men handed the larger pieces
of debris from hand to hand.
More than one hundred trucks
were hauling the heavy pieces
of concrete and masonry out
of the hole with cables, arid'
dragging heavy beams and
twisted pieces of structural steel
into the school yard.
Boy Scouts, American Legion-
naires, police, firemen, and dep-i
uty sheriffs from Overton, Hen-
derson, Kilgore, and other neigh-
boring towns gathered' to help
police the stricken area and to
aid in the rescue work.
Doctors and nurses, respond^
ing promptly and willingly to
the call of. tragedy, came from
thousands
ringed the lit!
ing intently' as
cue went on
in the center of the arena,
trucks, tractors and pumps
chugged and raced to drag the
debris from, the ghastly hole” of
death, while Igroups of silent men
worked desperately and hastily
to dig to the bottom of the pile
of debris Jn different corners
of the schodl.
Here and there, groups of
white clad doctors, nurses and
ambulance attendants would
gather at one group of men for
a few moments. Then a stretch-
er would be carried out between
lines of peering,- anxious faces,
and the evil whine of an am-
bulance siren closed another
chapter in this gruesome story
of death.
Rescue workers who were first
on the scene found heaps of lit-
tle torn bodies, many mangled
beyond recognition.
One small arm, the hand still
clutching a note, was found
yards from the building.
The torn note read:
this time, please. He will not
be late again this year. . .
In the front yard of the school
was a pile of tattered, bloody
clothes, some boys’ some girls’,
and a small boy’s shoe. The
workers carefully avoided look-
ing at this pile of clothes or
coming too close.
Throughout the night, the
rehabilitation work continued, as
fresh volunteer rescue workers
took the places of those Who fell
exhausted.' A stiflipg' dust rose
from the various corners of the
building where crews of men
worked frantically, and many
were forced- to cover their faces
with rags and i handkerchiefs in
order to continue.
Within a few hours after the
catastrophe,~ the -entire- country-
side had mobilized to do what-
ever possible for the stricken
oommuAity, but the work of res-
cue went silently, for the most
part, There was little shouting,
and an undertone of muttering
Thousands in Hender-
son Area Get Raise
Several., thousand field ^.em-
ployes to the Gulf Oil corpora-
tion in the East Texas field and
...other producing fields in the
area received notice Tuesday of
a substantial increase in wages.
The increase affects well pump-
$ 50.00
5.00
5.00
2.00 ■
5.00
10.00
5.00
50.00
10.00
5.00
10.00
5.00
5.00
, 5.00
prd 250.00
Ian .. ..y ....... 5.00'
bnal Bank A 1®0.00
hi i.oo
10.00
G. W. Craw-
5.00
approximately- two 'mflW
south- and .west of Lone Star
and three miles north of Panta.
, This" newest test is about two
miles north and east of the orig-
irial Jack Colliton well, which at-
Rev. J. L. Bounds filled his reg-
ular appointment at the Free Bap-
tist Church Saturday night and
Sunday morning.
Rev, Webb will fill his regular
appointment at the Baptist Church
next Saturday night and Sunday
morning.
Miss Margarette Deason, who is
attending junior college at Kilgore,
spent the week-end with her grand-
mother, Mrs. C. M. Rushton.
Mrs. Ezra Welch visited
mother, Mrs. John Rowell
Tuesday.
Emmet McCauley has accepted
work as a filling station- operator
for J. K. Gosset at Wright City
and will make his home at that
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Jerry Allen and Mr. and Mrs.
Grady AIMn of Sweet Gum spent
last Friday visiting in the home of
Mrs. H. B. Flanagan.
Christine Skelton spent the week
en<j with Sue Porter.
Mrs. Oscar Flanagan and Mrs.
Claud Skelton of Henderson and
Varner Wherry of Oak Hill visltad
in the home of Mr. and Mra. H. K
Flanagan Sunday.
Nathllled McCauley, who was op-
erated on recently in the Jackson-
ville hospital, has rteurned to
school.' . ’ »
Miss Joyce Gossette, daughter of
Mr. and Mrs. J. K. Goaaett, who
were at one time residente of this
community, was called to the home
above laat Thursday morning. We
extend our greateet sympathy to
the bereaved family.
Donnie McCauley has been as-
signed to the infantry at Fort Sam
Houston in San Antonio, after «n-
•
quired )>y authorities to
turned as asked:
“Do you spell
or two esses t"
Realizing his mistake,
laughed and apologized.
“I guess I’m so Wrought up
1 just fotgot hoib to spell for
the moment,” he said. LtC
haven’t seen anything
since I was in the War.-
awful.”
A continuous whisper ran
through the crowd of anxious
spectators as the rescue work
proceeded. “How many now?
How many?’’ was on the lips of
worker and spectator as the toll
mounted by the hundred.
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